Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1926, Page 5

DELAY IN GERMAN AR CLAIMS NOTED House Committee Confronted by Knotty Questions in Seeking Adjustments. By tho Associated Press. Congress is hardened to pro | {\be Ma s CIviNG rtin Says: ! { | { | Svhich are knotty and complex by na. “ure and also to those which become w0 by discussion. Dut the prize ress of the year is to be found in the serman war claims The House ways and means com mittee is hoping to find something to recommend, and it is hoped_that be fore the present Congress dies next March a bill may be passed n t possible to close up the ace: American citizens have a bill & Germany for death, injuries and prop- orty losses sustained during the World wWar. Approximately $300,000.000 worth of German private property vests In possession of the Alien Prop- erty Custodian. The bulk is composed of bank deposits, stocks, bonds, mort- -ages, real estate, factories and le ies to German natlo) inents have been withheld pending the settlement of awards by the Mixed Claims Commission to American tlonals, Official Side Considered. On the in side the Government is beholden to nationals for ehips seized in American when the* United & ed the war, for operating on American tes certain patents seized un ng with the enemy a turned over to the Ar Departments. The se German private claims 2 American Government vet been fixed. They will he the subject of an adjudication pendent of the procedure adopted by the Mixed Claims Commission in de termining the awards to American claimants. As n_resu hafore the w alike the interests of aimants and the rights tionals, Amerfcan nationals already heen awarded $140.000,000, while | claims still awaiting adjudication | bring the final total up to $190,000,600. The awards bear 5 cent interest. | Indemnification for deaths and per-| ~omal injuries to the amount of $3,60( 000 has been awarded American claim- | s. | , Heaviest Reimbursement Item. The heaviest reimbursement to| American nationals is that awarded to American underwriters for losses paid hy them on_ships and cargoes de- strpyed by German submarines. It amounts to roundly $50,000,000, of | which $14,000,000 represents interest calculated up to January 1, 1927. American industrial plants, ware- houses, merchandise stocks which were destroyed or seized by German military authorities in the war area constitute some of the numerous other items in the catalogue of American claims, The original value of German pri- vate property seized by the United States is estimated by German officlals s exceeding $500,000,000. Large parts of those assets have been released by | the alien propérty custodian, either hecause they were held illegally or be- longed to neutrals or residents in for- mer German territory which was lost 10 Germany through the treaty of | Versailles. ! Big Claim in Ship Selzures. Que of the largest claims held against the American Government by German nationals is that for about 100 German ships seized in American ports. They were commercial vessels with an approximate gross tonnage of 600.000. In a suit brought before the United States Court of Claims the Ger- n owners placed the value of the fleet at approximately $300,000,000. Among the vessels were the pick of the North German Lloyd and Ham- burg-American passenger fleet. The value of the German radio station at Sayville, Long Island, and of various rman patents taken by the Ameri- can Government tlso awalts adjudi- cation. There is an apparent desire on the part both of counsel for American claimants and German nationals to show a mutually accommodating atti. tude in order to bring about a speedy settlement. Tt is believed that with the aid of a congressional appropriation of $100,- 000,000, to which would be added §26,- 000,000 unalloeated interest accruing from German private property and 224,000,000 to be credited to the United States on September 1, 1927, on ac- count of its share of German repara- tions under the Dawes plan, a suffi- vient fund would be made availabel to dispose at once of all awards to Amer- fcan nationals under $100,000. They constityte 96 per cent of the total number of American claims against Giermany . MONEY FOUNb ”IPVI_FLOOR. Recluse Farmers. Recently De- ceased, Hid $2,055 in Bedroom. CHICAGO, December P).—A hole in the bedroom floor of the home of the late Jobu and Edward Flynn, - farmers of a Chicago suburb, day revealed to searchers $2,055 John Flynn, 72, died Friday of pneu- yionia, and a little later his brother Fdward, 70, shot and killed himself. Heirs believed the aged truck farmers Yiad assets of more than $60,000 and = ::rchl for the treasure was instituted wturd ,m The Bes A NALERLAEENRRARER SAARAN NS le Tlouses No. 7546 nlock St. N.W. contair rage. Open and Lighted Drive out 16th St. to Alaska Ave., on to 13th St. o :€ BreuninGeR & Soxs Main 6140 Builders a Shepherd Park Will Be a Community of Over 200 ldeal Homes als whose pay- | na- | | the are Breuninger Homes See Them Before You $1,250,000 LIBRARY PROJECT APPROVED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE (ontinued from First I | | which ought He tinued education all through life as an exten Mrs. Gile: the Di | deration of Parent out that o their oxt | i, | se to an effort t | ) which it became known that the trus- ces of the Carnegic Corporation have | detinitely decided not to provide funds | for more branch libraries Washington, told of the extre for library service in the n sec: of prolon; hearings | nd means committee t the way has been £ Model System Proposed. It was brought out during the hear- s that out of the Carnegie funds $682,000 has been provided for the central lbrary and branch libraries here. Chawman Gibson discussed the mportance of the Federal building | program for development and embel- | lishment of the Capital City and ar-| gued that an intellectual development | of the people should keep abreast with the material development of the mu. nicipality, go that the true soul o Nation might be expressed here. He was of the opinion that the trus- | tees of the Carnegie Corporation, | after giving thought to this aspect, might see its way to provide further funds toward making the Washing: | ton library system a model for all | other centers. In reply to questions by Mr. Hou- ston, Dr. Bowerman showed that 23 years ago $3 per cent of the demands upon the Library was for flction, while today 50 per cent is for educa- tional and “bread-and-butter’ litera- ture, which, he said, makes the con- stituency of the Library here the highest intellectually in the whole United Stat He explained that standards are belng maintained as those of an educational institution, pointing out that education ls a life process, and the aim of the Library is to encourage and broaden adult ed- | ucation. the Library | WIFE DRINKS, HE SAYS. William Simms Files Cross-Bill in | Divorce Case. Alleging misconduct and naming corespondent,” Willlam Simms toda: filed in District Supreme Court a! cross-bill against Mrs. Nettle Stmms, | in which he seeks an absolute divorce | and dismissal of his wife's suit against | him for separation because of cru- elty. | Simms was sued March 16 last for | a limited divorce. .He answered the bill April 8 and declared his wife was openly visiting amusement resorts in | company with other men. In hlsi | latest pleading the husband avers that | | since his wife filed suit she has been gulity of misconduct with the co- respondent. It is further alleged that the wife has become addicted to the use of intoxicants. Attorney Ray- | mond Neudecker appears for Slmms. |CLAIMS CELLAR FLOODED. The District Supreme Court was asked today to halt further buijding operations on Somerset place by Harry Wardman and Thon Bones until alleys adjacent to Rittenhous street are corrected to prevent over flow into the cellar of that property | Mrs. Mary B. Brown, who says she bought the property from Wardman |and Bones, today filed suit against | the two bullders and the District of Columbia, which had approved the | plans of the alleyways. Mrs. Brown, through Attorneys Robert H. McNeill and John W. Maher, tells the court that in her deed to the property the sellers warranted 1o keep the house habitable and in | sanitary condition, but by reason of | excavations and grading of certaind alleys water backs up into her cellar and deposits dirt and sediment. She explains that on one occaston the water stood over four feet and on another time nearly two feet. She asks for an injunction ugainst further | excavations and to require defendants {to protect her property. She also | wants a master to determine the actual damage sustained by her. t Homes Buy » 6 Alaska N N S S e N Daily Until 9 P.M. 706 Colorado Bldg. nd Realtors | resolutions ¢ ‘PUSSYFO ! | Declares THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U. 5. VIEWS ON TAX - PARLEY SOUGHT Business Men Wonder Wheth- er America Will Be Repre- sented at Geneva. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. neva i wherehy > eliminated’ who suffer draft pro taxation will X et \dvantages s country 1s douhle the both wel dis. stion they Britain, ¥ Japan, Holland, Belgium / Poland, Switzerland tcla have announced they end the highest officlals of dministrations to atte xpansion of Awmerlcan in nd trade outside of the double taxation i: be 1sive many Czeche 1d Vene i d to tax With the vestments United coming Double Expense Shows Many A an_ manufacturers are 1g compelled, in many instances, £0 to the trouble and ‘expen: of organizing compani alroad, and sof this means the sending of complicated audits so at the total business done both here 11 abroad n be appraised, and the exact amount profit on business done abroad deterr The United be to 4 inserting tew of s on shipping stnee been adopted ¢ other commer nation: Prof. T. € Adams of Yale and George O. May of Price, Waterhouse & Co. In the meantime have been co- operating with tax representatives of other countries at meetings held by the International Chamber of Com. merce or committees of the League of Nations with the hope of finding a uniform plan to eliminate double taxation on all kinds of income. The afted by these oxperts will form the basiy of discu the January meeting. The program includes dvatt ventions with respect to double tax tion, well as tax evasion, and there is also a protocol on judicial as sistance in the collection of t ie conventions adopted will serve s models for agreements between in- dividual countries. The difference in tax tems of various countries makes general convention or tre: mpracticable. Under League Auspices. Up to now the views of the debtor countries have in most cases been accepted, as Great Britain alone has represented the viewpoint of the creditor country. It is known t debtor countrie: s well 8 C Britgjn, are anxious to have the vie of Amherican experts, but because the meeting 1S to be held under the auspices of the League of Nations there is a fcar obstacles may 1 placed in the path of American co- | operation. The United States is not asked to sign any political agreement, but sim- ply to aid in drafting a xet of princi- ples which will serve as guides to various governments in setting up two-party agreements. Decision rests with the President, who must ask for | the necessal ppropriation, and Con- gress, where authorization for such delegates must be given, (Covyright, 1936.) 0T’ REPORTS DRYS SLOW ABROAD England, France Greece Are Too Busy to Think Special Dispateh to The S NEW YORK, December 13.-—¥rohi- bition is not making much progress in England, France or Greece, William E. “Pussyfoot” Johnson declared upon his arrival here today on the United States liner President Harding. His campaigning trip through Eu- rope, which began last July, has led him to helieve that those countries “have no'time to think about prohi- bition, as they are confronted with other great national issues. They'll soon be able to think about it, and then they’ll come around ali right.” New the ent referendum and the wet majorities piled up in other Stat Johngon regards as a victory for pro- hibition. *“We =still have Congress with us,” he added. “We have 311 votes of 4356 in the Ifouse of Repre- sentatives and the Senate is over- whelmingly with ‘The majority of men in this coun- try do not drink,” he said. ““The poor man don't—he can't afford to pay cents a drink. Why all this fuss? It is nostly the agitation of the fdle rich.” CARDINAL RAATES GIFTS. 0’Connell Says First Yule Present Is Self to God. BOSTON, December 13 (#) how Cardinal O’Connell ranks Christ- mas gifts: To God first, to children, secondly; then the poor, and finally friends. “The first gift is of ourselves to Him,” the Cardinal told members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He advised that all prescuts be simple and well within the limits of the giver. @he Forsing Htar * B rlf Wis. Ave. Pharma: in | and | York's four-to-one wet vote in| | | [ KEYSTONES OF HIS ART CAREER horough Knowledge of Sub- ject Being Painted Vital, He Declares. | ' Began Sketching When a Boy | and Rose to Wide Rzputation. Ty Know th 1 st knows paint nature he w tudy not alone, bt nature itself. | Such 18 the artistic philosophy {Col. L well, veteran Am fean land puinter | his Suth birthday todiy | studio, 1928 G strect. Col. Powell fe among the | tinguisked painters of Lis ¢ Washington how es and are filled with 1 i John 1. Hender chased 200 of them . Theodore 1 Lis patrons, One pictures he ever made Grand ehfeh reading room r Othiers have prominent. p in the Corcoran Gallery, the National Gal lery, Amerfean and Georgetown Unt vers andn the Congressional Club. Evident in Boylwod. ol Powell's talent wads manifest duiing his bo Louden County farm born, and near whicl spends his Summers. He was forever ske ing turkeys, farm anfials and school mates. At echool Le « ments of arithmetic by boys to do his sums while | pictures for then | When he was 17 came the outbreak { of the Civil War and he enlisted. Ho served through the war as a private in the 1ith Virginia Cavalry, a part Gien. Fitzhugh Lee's division. His title as colanel is thoroughly legiti mate siuce he has been for | man: . on the staff of the comm, War Vetera He got some relief from t ¢ life by drawing pictures rtoons—of soldiers and of- s in his regiment. For the most these oons were popular had to be, for discipline. w strict. At the end of the war he re- turned to his mother's farm. His health was so shattered that he was unable to do much furm work and his mother begged him to take up art o career.. He finally wus persuaded, I he says, against his own judgment |to go to Philadelphia as an art | student. In that city he fell under the in- fluence of the landscape ers, Thomas and Hdward Moran. The work of the former, who died re- atly influenced his_own It was with the example of Moran in mind that he turned finally to the | grandeur of the Rocky Mountain canyons as fitting subjects for his at most dis ner as one { the largest it of the | Count Tale | were first vod on he was biring other he drew dreart ficer: part they fi Afte dent in New Yor a short period as an art stu . the young painter COL. POWELL. 80 TODAY. DISCLOSESI{ ’ 10 PUSH TAX BILL who observed | his new tion. | h | ped the tor- | hiet of the Confederate | s | (., MONDAY, T COL. LUCIEN W. POW a1 routine of Parls, In Lon- for he had nfluence of Turner, the s artist of the known study the u galleries nd Rowe decided 1o follow of visit the | London, Venice don he spent thry len ther work it British g paint | T the gr work in Venic a deep study he ; s Leen one of is own Powell, making shi Venice haunis oo Then be retwrned to Washington. | Here he was ed to - n party of | |the Geological Survey sent out to ox- | plore the Grand Canyon of the Col-| orado. e this opportu nity. His te Thomas Mo- | ran, alveady had been experimenting with canyon Y. inee then 1 nyon | some charming {in northern Virginia near | mer home at Purcellville. | put has been enormous Seeks Art Salon. in s Col, cnrs and effects gination and ev | brush old h sum his Tlis | Powell the ated Col. cany compli ted ‘his life, to preserving o deli vague, highly | color vaviations in nature. You can’'t paint without facts, rst THe sV, s dev to find then pr try out what your| fact: serve them on ) can He has made scyeral trips abre | One of most prized paintin; {of a part of the River Jordan, with | stake in the muddy water, where, ¢ | cord ng to I legendry, Christ wi { baptized. Col. Powell is engaged in gather | a considerable number of his paintin: new Winter hofne on G street, he hopes to screate a notable salon. will spend Wintc T love the the symphon enough. creasing nee come in art hi | “but s not the in n contacts, such Washington.” PUBLISHERS CLAIM Hearings Reopened Before I. C. C. Examiner on Charges Against B. & 0. The complaint of the Washington Publishers’ Association und inter- venors against the Baltimore & Ohio | Railroad, alleging overcharge on ship- | ments of newsprint paper in carloads | to Washington, was reopened today | before an Interstate Commerce Com- to prove damage to them by reason of the overcharge alleged in the com- plaint, W, P. Neville, secretary-treasurer of | the Labor Co-operative Iducational !and Publishing Society, publishers of the paper, Labor, testifled before Jix- aminer Konigsberger as to the charges on shipments of newsprint exacted by |the defendant rallroed during the perfod for which reparation ls asked. The newsprint, he said, was billed to the R. P. Andrews Paper Co. of Wash- ington. because the Labor Co-opera- tive Educutional and Publishing So- clety had no facilities for storing newsprint. Other shipments were billed to the National Tribune Co., which published the paper, Labor, be. fore the society Installed its own printing machinery. Testimony tending charges on newsprint shipments to the Washington Herald Co. had been pald Ly that company was given by E. M. Flesh, formerly treasurer of the | company, and J. E. Rice, former man- aging editor of the newspaper. Other | witnesses will take the stand during the day. " | Lo | Donates Holdings to “Good Will.” NEW YORK. 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A A A S S S S S fied Ads LTS from Star Classi “Around the corner” is a Star Branch Office PAPER OVERCHARGE | | mission examiner to permit witnesses | that | 1 | GREETING TO VETERANS BY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Senator Means Addresses Holiday Message to United Spanish War Organization. Senator Rice W. Means of Colorado, | | commander-n-chief of the . United | Spanish War Veterans, today sent | holiday greetings to all camps of the order in Alaska, Hawall, C‘uba, Porto | Rico, Panama, the Philippines, China | | and ‘the States of the Union. | The closing vear has proved a fruit- | ful one for members of the organiza | tion, he_said. pointing especially to | increased pensions. He uppealed te all members to “begin the new vear | with an intensive campaign to upbuild the spirit of patriotism, love of flag and_country and of loyalty to the law, INJURED ON SICK TRIP. SARASOTA, ¥ n route to § | i ] | December ota to be at the bedside of her daughter, Miss Nancy | Hill, who was scriously infured in' an automoblle wreck last Thursday, Mre. John M. Hill, society matron of | Atlanta, was badly hurt when her automobile was struck by a machine | driven by a negro. { Mrs. Hill was taken to the Sarasot Hospital and is now a patient in room adjoining that of her daughte: Her injurles are seriou 3 ). a | | Headquarters for the Best American and Swiss Watches We handle best. nothing but the Hamilton Watches from $30.00 to $175.00 Elgin and Waltham Watches from $13.50 to $150.00 $25.00 to $140.00 Complete assortment of solid mahogany Seth Thomas Clocks from $12.50 to $100.00 First jewelry store on F Street, established in 1881; no branch stores. s Salvatore Desio 926 F Street Bet. 9th and 10th DECEMBER 13, 1926 LB DEMOCRATS PLAN ;7o e e 7 PLANE PLUNGES Will Seek 218 Members’ Names to Bring Measure De { ning | House the $335. fon Lill on’ the ¥ The | sultati rett of and Re, nkir means cc Under the r natures House his is abe o V13 the n consul in have Marbary r-time William vented from W line temporary visi six-month sta wife of an Ameri to Taylor ssurance consul | would i mittes, WFEOF VRGN DENED .S ENTRY Visitor’s Visa Granted Whilei“i“l LE el G Mrs. Georgette Taylor Is | t its call a thing the V) from one by their one, pair Chen PILOT INTO OGEAN o not cait to| Capt. Aldsworth of Langley o't wreened | Field Tactical School Un- hurt Off Rockaway Park. mechanics, me wood. some W I seek th and wa res tel il his days, tocks in 1 want a 1 to fix whatever's ph. the dinner g 1 and il ways, on House Floor. ratie House eirey e 100,000 Do o ¢ decided on (b method « { the W Saturday decision n hetw Tennes 1mong | Cap rs in Corp Atlantic Ocear ay Park when a ving from Mite feld developed n ) the and me d the bes nded in en Re v over. the ninority wors Tm up I cail Fleld t M. Brad: Potwers suffere. ttempting membersh ne hit a pos t 50 T haul. take mes cause of the ghts wer ckets sen 1l ler 1 TWO HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGES AFTER CRASH DR. ABERNETHY SPEAKS AT CHRISTMAS SERVICE Alber T Sixth stree irrested last nigh Policemen €, & 1d Char! erith precinct - were v ideswipe Wa Albert Bas 1017 O streef the seizure of alleged moonsh ul charged the 1l possession anc driver of the with reckless ed and held e Education Brauch of Women's Clubs. Smith as | Ripper Delayed in Landing. p ated Prese W YORK reported as Jf Women's Clubs it Keith' Decen inj u Parts t difficult no ntry the wee ral eh:irn Federation t | continue I W, H. Hows ligious ed en's throughont A, g nd buol author ) from regret present. Mr M Virgin e District education member Wallac pre- | French day. nly lowing b oo could not president ve le drive: Reventeent] 1 was one of other members not in ligious Dr. William | Mount Vernon a4 pray the Firs La Methodis Music furnished Congregational Ch ¢ Smith Stahl, th, P enter b Chureh, the in Puris o Le permitted (uestion. Novembe: cistt his mother” { with his wife, forme Leon, French film | The first coal mines known | Alge | the nine years | that further re in the finding of other cxtensive de- | si | posits. s the planist. of the I Aitchison, p John ENTERPRISE SERIAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION 7th St. & La. Ave. N.W. stock now open subseription Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments James E. Connelly, President James F. Shea, Secretary Member ained ther ernight. pt. Taylor has been 1 n pictur He was on his v home in Richie Mlle, Geo 2 Palmer will de- r the address tomorrow at noon. . John D. Sherman will preside. aris since 19 o Fine Arts Body Needs $1,500. tecommendation for a appropr i of $1.500 mission of Fine Arts very | to the House Saturday ulted [ dent. The commission wre meetings expen D. J. KAUFMA INC GIFTS MEN LIKE For Three Days Only /Vl\omlay, Tuesday, W ednesday 300 Thirty-Five-Dollar OVERCOATS ( And Topcoats) ¥ oplemental | the Com- as transmitted by the Presi- Las to hold | and needs the | w in have proved so productive in nee their disc arches have re mone 1005 Pa. Ave. Charge Acets. 1724 Pa. Ave. Invited. ALL WOOL, HAND- TAILORED, SILK TRIMMED. 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